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SUMMARY:Net Impact Academic Speaker Series with Dr. Richard Jackson
DESCRIPTION:The UCLA Luskin Center for Innoation will be sponsoring Net Impact for an evening with Dr. RichardJackson from the UCLA Fielding School of Public Health for a provocative presentation on how the built environment affects human health. Dinner will be provided and there will be time\nfor networking after the presentation. Register Here.Dr.\nJackson is the recipient of the 2015 Henry Hope Reed Award given by the Notre\nDame School of Architecture to “an individual working outside the practice of\narchitecture who has supported the cultivation of the traditional city\, its\narchitecture and art.” To quote Michael Lykoudis of the Notre Dame School of\nArchitecture\, “Dr. Jackson’s research has demonstrated how cities with mixed\nuse\, pedestrian-friendly urbanism provide an environment that promotes health\nand well-being. In the midst of a national debate on health care\, he has\nrealigned the focus to include a holistic approach to fitness that examines the\ncauses of poor health rather than just a cure.”Dr. Jackson is an elected member of the\nInstitute of Medicine of the National Academy of Sciences. Throughout his\ncareer\, he has served the California Health Department in many leadership\npositions in environmental health and infectious disease\, including the highest\npost\, State Health Officer. For nine years he was director of the CDC’s\nNational Center for Environmental Health in Atlanta and received the\nPresidential Distinguished Service award. We are honored to have Dr. Jackson as\nour guest and we look forward to learning more about how we can\nimprove public health.
URL:https://innovation.luskin.ucla.edu/event/net-impact-academic-speaker-series-with-dr-richard-jackson-2/
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SUMMARY:Hurdles and Steps: Estimating Demand for Solar Photovoltaics
DESCRIPTION:Hurdles and Steps:Estimating Demand for Solar PhotovoltaicsTsvetan Tsvetanov\, Yale UniversityKenneth Gillingham\, Yale UniversityNovember 12\, 2014JOB MARKET PAPER: AbstractIn light of the steadily decreasing step schedule of financial incentives for solar photovoltaic (PV) installations in a number of states\, understanding the demand for residential PV systems is important for both policymakers and firms. This paper estimates residential solar demand in Connecticut using a new approach to address three empirical challenges that can arise with count data in our setting: excess zeros\, unobserved heterogeneity\, and endogeneity of price. We develop a Poisson hurdle model that allows for both fixed effects and instrumental variable estimation. Our results imply a nearly unitary price elasticity of demand for solar PV systems of -1.03. Counterfactual policy simulations suggest that the number of new installations in Connecticut in 2013 would have been 35 percent less than observed in the absence of state financial incentives. Policies to eliminate permitting costs\, such as those implemented in several states\, would have increased the number of new installations by 1.5 percent.
URL:https://innovation.luskin.ucla.edu/event/hurdles-and-steps-estimating-demand-for-solar-photovoltaics-2/
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SUMMARY:Chinese State Capitalism and the Environment
DESCRIPTION:About the SpeakerAlex Wang is an Assistant Professor of Law at UCLA School of Law. His primary research and teaching interests are in environmental law\, Chinese law\, comparative law\, and torts. He has been a visiting assistant professor at UC Berkeley School of Law.Wang was previously a senior attorney for the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) based in Beijing and the founding director of NRDC’s China Environmental Law & Governance Project. In this capacity\, he worked with China’s government agencies\, legal community\, and environmental groups to improve environmental rule of law and strengthen the role of the public in environmental protection. He helped to establish NRDC’s Beijing office in 2006. He was a Fulbright Fellow to China from 2004-05. Prior to that\, Mr. Wang was an attorney at the law firm of Simpson Thacher & Bartlett LLP in New York City\, where he worked on mergers & acquisitions\, securities matters\, and pro bono Endangered Species Act litigation.Wang holds a J.D. from NYU School of Law\, and earned his B.S. in Biology with distinction from Duke University. He is on the Advisory Board of the Institute of Public & Environmental Affairs (IPE)\, a leading Chinese environmental organization. He is also a member of the Council on Foreign Relations\, the National Committee on U.S.-China Relations\, where he was a fellow from 2008-10\, and the Advisory Board to the Asia Society’s Center on U.S.-China Relations. He is a regular speaker on issues related to China and environmental protection. About the TalkChinese state-owned enterprises are commonly viewed as rogue vested interests thwarting state environmental goals through capture of rule making\, enforcement\, and allocation of state subsidies. While state capture is a useful lens of analysis\, this framing has too often obscured how SOEs and central authorities have traditionally been more or less aligned in treating environmental protection as a low-priority objective. Given this alignment of interests\, past evidence of SOE non-compliance does not create a strong inference that central authorities are unable to garner SOE compliance with state priorities. With this as foundation\, I argue that the recent rise of “green development” priorities in China places central authorities in uncharted territory in their approach to regulating SOEs. In recent years\, central authorities have attempted to shift SOE behavior toward green development goals through a combination of accommodation/bargaining (carrots) and bare-knuckled\, sometimes extra-legal efforts to weaken the sources of SOE influence (sticks). The approach has also included modest expansion of traditional regulatory and market tools that are commonly favored by Western commentators. The limited embrace of these regulatory and market tools\, however\, suggests\, among other things\, a continued unwillingness (or inability) to expand the power of courts and regulatory agencies\, and the likelihood that the state will sustain a relatively high-level of intervention in markets and economic activity. Ultimately\, this particular approach to authoritarian environmentalism has the potential to deliver some level of environmental performance in the near term. This dynamic has implications for assessments of Chinese state legitimacy and regulatory approaches in authoritarian and emerging economy contexts.  
URL:https://innovation.luskin.ucla.edu/event/chinese-state-capitalism-and-the-environment-2/
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SUMMARY:Parched Lawns\, Severe Congestion\, and Flickering Lights: Rebuilding\, reinventing and reimagining California's infrastructure
DESCRIPTION:QUARTERLY ECONOMIC OUTLOOKOur December UCLA Anderson Forecast will address the critical infrastructure investments that California requires for a prosperous future. Some of these requirements are made obvious by our daily commutes past parched lawns and dying trees\, on roads crowded with vehicles and peppered with potholes\, while avoiding the latest water-main breaks. “More of the same” is not the answer for roads and water infrastructure. We need infrastructure that allows us to use more effectively the limited space and the limited water that nature has provided. To attract the creative workers who are so important for the prosperity of all of us\, we need better quality-of-life infrastructure to complement the extraordinary climate that we enjoy in California. Sunshine alone is no longer enough. The time has come to express our optimism with action on all of these fronts.Keynote Speaker: TBAPrice: $195 | Online registration closes 11:59 p.m. on 12/7/2014AGENDA7:30 – 8:30aRegistration and Breakfast8:30 – 8:35aWelcome and Introductions8:35 – 9:35aUCLA Anderson Forecast for the Nation and State9:35 – 10:05aPanel 1: Utilities in an Age of Shortage10:05 – 10:25aBreak10:25 – 10:45aIntroduction of Keynote Address10:45 – 11:15aKeynote Address11:15 – 11:45aPanel 2 – Planes\, Trains and Automobiles: Moving the California Economy11:45aWrap-up and Closing \nKEY TOPICSIs the Economy on track for consistent 3% growth?How worrisome will inflation be?Will a failing infrastructure thwart growth in the years ahead?Will the tech sector growth continue to carry the State economy?Do geysers at UCLA portend an infrastructure impaired future?How long does Los Angeles’ infrastructure investment compare to other cities? \nSPEAKERSEdward Leamer\, Director\, UCLA Anderson ForecastDavid Shulman\, Senior Economist\, UCLA Anderson ForecastJerry Nickelsburg\, Senior Economist\, UCLA Anderson ForecastWilliam Yu\, Economist\, UCLA Anderson ForecastAndy Lipkis\, President\, Tree PeopleJeff Kightlinger\, General Manager\, Metropolitan Water DistrictBret Lane\, COO\, Southern California Gas CompanyMatthew Kahn\, Professor\, Institute of the Environment\, UCLA Luskin School of Public AffairsOtis L. Cliatt II\, President\, Pacific Harbor Line\, Inc.Roger Johnson\, Deputy Director\, Los Angeles World AirportsAurthur T. Leahy\, CEO\, Metropolitan Transportation AuthorityJ.R. DeShazo\, Director\, Luskin center for Innovation\, Professor\, UCLA Luskin School of Public PolicyRon Galperin\, Controller of the City of Los AngelesSPONSORSPlatinum SponsorGold Sponsor        Silver Sponsors                         
URL:https://innovation.luskin.ucla.edu/event/parched-lawns-severe-congestion-and-flickering-lights-rebuilding-reinventing-and-reimagining-californias-infrastructure-2/
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SUMMARY:FEC Lecture Series: Diverging Destinies of Dads: Growing Inequality’s Impact on the American Family with Kathryn Edin
DESCRIPTION:Diverging Destinies of Dads: Growing Inequality’s Impact on theAmerican FamilyWith Kathryn\nEdin of Johns Hopkins University Register at http://feclecturenov4.eventbrite.com Kathryn Edin is one\nof the nation’s leading poverty researchers. The hallmark of her research is\nher direct\, in-depth observations of the lives of low-income women and men and\nis particularly interested in questions about the urban poor that have not been\nfully answered by quantitative work: How do single mothers possibly survive on\nwelfare? Why do they end up as single mothers in the first place? Where are the\nfathers and why do they disengage from their children’s lives? \nKathy is the author of six books and more than 50 journal articles. The\nmost recent\, Doing the Best I Can: Fathering in the Inner City\, written with\nTimothy Nelson\, will be published in May\, 2013 by the University of California\nPress.  A strikingly rich\, paradigm-shifting look at fatherhood among\ninner-city men\, who are so often dismissed as “deadbeat dads\,” Doing the Best I\nCan shows how mammoth economic and cultural changes have transformed the\nmeaning of fatherhood among the urban poor. The book reveals a radical\nredefinition of family life\, one that has revolutionized the meaning of\nfatherhood among inner-city men. \nIn the award-winning Promises I Can Keep: Why Poor Women Put Motherhood before\nMarriage\, Kathy Edin and her co-author\, Maria Kefalas\, sought to\nanswer the question of why so many low-income women were having children\nwithout marrying\,  Based on in-depth interviews and observations\, the\nauthors found that\, rather than undervaluing marriage\, low-income women held\nmarriage to a very high bar.  Child rearing was so central to their views\nof themselves that they were unwilling to postpone starting families until they\ncould find suitable husbands\, which could take years\, if ever.  In its\nreview\, the Wall Street Journal said the authors\, “overthrow decades of\nconventional wisdom.” \nThe Russell Sage Foundation published Kathy Edin’s first book\, Making Ends\nMeet: How Single Mothers Survive Welfare and Low-Wage Work\, written with Laura\nLein. This work shed new light on a question that was central to the ongoing\ndebate about welfare reform: Why weren’t single mothers\nworking?  Edin and Lein found that most mothers were working –\nlargely off-the-books – and combining resources from several sources (welfare\,\nwork\, the fathers of their children\, grandmothers) in order to make ends meet\nfor themselves and their children. The book generated widespread interest and\ndebate\, and led to a profile of Edin in the New York Times Magazine. \nA frequent commentator for print and broadcast media\, Kathy Edin has\nalso testified before the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate on\nwelfare and marriage issues. She is chair of Harvard’s Multidisciplinary\nProgram in Inequality and Social Policy.  She is a Trustee of the Russell\nSage Foundation\, a member of ASPE’s Self Sufficiency Working Group\, and on\nHHS’s advisory committee for the poverty research centers at Michigan\,\nWisconsin\, and Stanford. She is a founding member of the MacArthur\nFoundation-funded Network on Housing and Families with Young Children and a\npast member of the MacArthur Network on the Family and the Economy. \n  Part of the FEC Public Lecture Series 2014: Growing\nEconomic Inequality Through Multiple Lenses\nTuesdays\, 12:30 – 2 pm\nPublic Affairs Building 2355
URL:https://innovation.luskin.ucla.edu/event/fec-lecture-series-diverging-destinies-of-dads-growing-inequalitys-impact-on-the-american-family-with-kathryn-edin-2/
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SUMMARY:The Great California Drought This Time\, and Next
DESCRIPTION:How has the State Water Resources Control Board managed water during this drought?What has the Board learned about how to respond to the next drought? Featuring:Felicia Marcus\,\nChair\, \nMax Gomberg\, Water\nConservation Policy Advisor\nState Water\nResources Control Board\n \nComplimentary\nRefreshments Following the Lecture\n \nRSVP only: Limited Seating\n \nSponsored by:UCLA Institute of the Environment and Sustainability\, Water Resources Working GroupCosponsored by:\nThe UCLA Law School Emmett Institute on Climate Change and the\nEnvironment \nEnvironmental Law Society\nThe UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation\nThe UCLA Water Technology Research Center\nThe UCLA Department of Geography\n \nOne\nof a series of lectures and discussions organized  by the UCLA Water\nResources Working Group to bring together experts on water policy\, science\,\nlaw\, and technology\, to work on interdisciplinary solutions to water\nsustainability. For more information about the UCLA Water Resources Group\nvisit:\nhttp://www.environment.ucla.edu/water/ 
URL:https://innovation.luskin.ucla.edu/event/the-great-california-drought-this-time-and-next-2/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20141008T083000
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SUMMARY:Digital Media Pipeline '14
DESCRIPTION:Student Survey for Consumer Panel: The Entertainment Merchant Association is assembling a consumer panel to discuss how and where students access entertainment content. In this panel\, they want to include two college students that are active users of digital entertainment and view content on a variety of platforms. If selected\, panelists will receive $100.Student DiscountIf you wish to attend\, but do not want to be part of the panel\, EMA is offering a student discount for Luskin students for a special registration price of $55 (a $395 value).Please email czarate@luskin.ucla.edu if you’d like to participate!Event schedule & Details
URL:https://innovation.luskin.ucla.edu/event/digital-media-pipeline-14-2/
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SUMMARY:Environmental Graduate Student Networking Event 2014
DESCRIPTION:All graduate students interested in environmental sustainability and energy are invited to a free\, cross-campus networking reception.Learn more about campus environmental organizations\, student research opportunities\, internships\, and other events\, while you also meet your peers over hors d’oeuvres and refreshments. There is no dress code.REGISTRATION IS REQUIRED: https://www.regonline.com/LuskinNetworking2014(Must have a valid UCLA ID. Graduate students/Faculty/Staff only)Presentations from:Luskin Center for InnovationInstitute of the Environment and SusatainabilityLeaders in sustainabilityEmmett Institute on Climate Change and the EnvironmentGSA Sustainable Resource CenterChief Sustainable Officer \n              \n             
URL:https://innovation.luskin.ucla.edu/event/environmental-graduate-student-networking-event-2014-2/
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SUMMARY:An Evening with Janette Sadik-Khan
DESCRIPTION:Janette Sadik-Khan is Principal with Bloomberg Associates\, and she is a FormerCommissioner of New York City Department of Transportation. \nInternationally recognized for\nher expertise in transportation issues\, public policy development and\ninnovative finance\, Sadik-Khan implemented an ambitious program to improve\nsafety\, mobility and sustainability throughout NYC\, and ensured a state of good\nrepair on the city’s roads\, sidewalks and bridges. Sadik-Khan oversaw a series\nof innovative projects\, including creating more pedestrian space in Times\nSquare and along Broadway from Columbus Circle to Union Square\, the planning\nand launch of seven Select Bus Service routes and the nation’s largest bike\nshare program\, the addition of nearly 400 miles of bicycle lanes and the\ninstallation and design of more than 60 plazas citywide\, and the publication of\na Street Design Manual and Street Works Manual\, which defined new standards for\ncreating more durable and attractive streets. \nA cocktail reception precedes the\nprogram. \nPresented in partnership with the\nDepartment of Urban Planning \nEvent information \n  When: \n  Wednesday\,\n  October 1\, 2014\n  5:30 p.m. Reception\n  6:30 p.m. Program \n  Where:    \n  UCLA\n  California NanoSystems Institute Auditorium\n  570 Westwood Plaza\n  Los Angeles\, California 90095\n  On-site parking available\n  for $12\n  Transit: Big Blue Bus\,\n  Culver City Bus\, Metro \nRSVP\nby September 26 or\ncontact us for more information:\njsk2014.eventbrite.com      •      310-206-8034 
URL:https://innovation.luskin.ucla.edu/event/an-evening-with-janette-sadik-khan/
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SUMMARY:Public Health\, Climate Change and Urban Forestry
DESCRIPTION:The Los Angeles Center for Urban Natural ResourcesSustainability and the UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation invite you to a\npresentation on Public Health\, Climate\nChange\, & Urban Forestry by USDA Forest Service collaborators from UCLA\nand Cornell University on:Wednesday\, August 13\, 2014 \nLos Angeles City Hall | Bradley Tower\n(26th Floor) \n200 N. Spring Street\, Los Angeles\, CA 90012 \n10:00 AM – 12:00 PM\, Presentation &\nDiscussion | 12:00 – 1:00 PM\, Lunch \nPlease RSVP with Kevin O’Donnell at kbodonnell@fs.fed.us no later than July 30\, 2014 \nConfirmation will be followed with additional information for parking_______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ \nPublic Health\,\nClimate Change\, and Urban Forestry \nCalifornians\, and in\nparticular certain populations in the Los Angeles region\, face a number of adverse\nhealth effects due to climate change. This presentation summarizes the latest\nresearch on climate-health pathways\, focusing on the most significant climate\nimpacts in the LA region\, other environmental conditions\, human behavior\, and physical\nand mental health. The presenters propose a framework for assessing and\naddressing health vulnerability to climate change as part of a dynamic\, complex\nsystem that includes urban forestry\, water\, and environmental justice\nconsiderations. The event will bring together practitioners and researchers in both\nurban forestry and public health\, along with other local leaders. A group discussion\ncould include ideas for new collaborations and integrated strategies for\nbuilding climate resiliency. 
URL:https://innovation.luskin.ucla.edu/event/public-health-climate-change-and-urban-forestry/
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SUMMARY:Environment and Energy Economics Weekly Seminar: Mark Jacobsen
DESCRIPTION:“Vehicle Scrappage andGasoline Policy”AbstractWe estimate the\nsensitivity of scrap decisions to changes in used car values – the “scrap elasticity”\n– and show how it influences used car fleets under policies aimed at reducing\ngasoline use. Large scrap elasticities produce emissions leakage under efficiency\nstandards as the longevity of used vehicles is increased\, a process known as\nthe Gruenspecht effect. To explore the magnitude of this leakage we\nassemble a novel dataset of U.S. used vehicle registrations and prices\, which we\nrelate through time via differential effects in gasoline cost: A gasoline price\nincrease or decrease of $1 changes used vehicle prices and alters the number of\nfuel-efficient vs. fuel-inefficient vehicles scrapped by 18%. These\nrelationships allow us to provide what we believe are the first estimates of\nthe scrap elasticity itself\, which we find to be about -0.7. When applied in a\nmodel of fuel economy standards\, the central elasticities we estimate suggest\nthat 12-17% of the expected fuel savings will leak away through the used\nvehicle market. This considerably reduces the cost-effectiveness of the\nstandard\, rivaling or exceeding the importance of the often-cited mileage “rebound” effect.Link to paperAbout the speakerMark Jacobsen is an associate professor of economics at the University of California\, San Diego and a research associate at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He received his Ph.D. in economics from Stanford University. Jacobsen’s research focuses on environmental regulation and taxes and addresses two main themes: the first is environmental regulation of transportation and the automobile industry. The second considers optimal environmental policy in the context of the broader economy.Jacobsen’s work on transportation examines the impact of regulation to reduce gasoline use\, including the Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards and gasoline taxes. He has studied both the efficiency and distributional effects of these policies\, examining empirically consumer purchase behavior\, the response of automobile manufacturers to regulation\, and vehicle safety. A current project considers policy impacts on used car markets. Jacobsen’s research on optimal policy choice applies to a much wider set of environmental policies beyond transportation. He considers policymakers’ choices in the context of the broader economy\, showing how Ricardian rents\, untaxed activity in the informal sector\, and political pressure to protect industry can act to change the type of environmental policy that is most efficient.Please see Professor Jacobsen’s webpage for more information
URL:https://innovation.luskin.ucla.edu/event/environment-and-energy-economics-weekly-seminar-mark-jacobsen/
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SUMMARY:IoES/Luskin Research Seminar: Rajit Gadh
DESCRIPTION:“Smart Connection of EVs into the Electric Grid”Recent advances in information and communications systems and battery technologies\, in combination with substantial importance given by society to reducing greenhouse gas/carbon emissions\, have resulted in accelerated innovations in electric vehicles and the smart and renewable electric infrastructure necessary to fuel and support them. Products such as the Nissan Leaf\, Chevy Volt\, and Ford Focus Electric\, are in the process of creating mass markets for electric vehicles in the U.S. The utilities on their part are rapidly moving towards enhancing their infrastructure through their own investments as well as those from the DOE Stimulus ARRAGrants\, and the result will be major changes in their distribution and transmission infrastructure.Nevertheless\, the current infrastructure in the U.S. would have adifficult time supporting the charging of these EVs — substantial technological\, infrastructure and behavioral changes would be required to scale up the number of EVs. This results in opportunities and challenges\, and at UCLA\, we are working on developing an innovative smart grid-based infrastructure that takes advantage of the presence of EVs for both G2V (Grid-to-vehicle) and V2G (Vehicle-to-grid) to assist utilities and garage operators in managing loads via aggregated electric vehicles. The underlying research platform — an intelligent middleware connecting\, monitoring\, controlling\, and managing the charging and discharging of EVs using wireless communications\, sensors and controllers — will be presented in this session\, along with the accompanying opportunities\, challenges and future directions for aggregating and charging plug-in electric vehicles.About the Speaker:Professor Rajit GadhDepartment: Department of Mechanical and Aerospace Engineering EducationCarnegie Mellon University\, 1991Areas of InterestSmart Grid – Communication and control\, Electric Vehicle aggregation for Smart Grid Integration\, Vehicle to Grid and Grid to Vehicle\, Automated Demand Response\, Micro-grid modeling\, Smart grid for renewable integration\, Radio Frequency Identification (RFID)\, Wireless Internet of Artifacts\, Reconfigurable Wireless Sensing and Networking Systems\, Wireless Multimedia Architectures\,  CAD/CAM/VR/Visualization. 
URL:https://innovation.luskin.ucla.edu/event/ioes-luskin-research-seminar-rajit-gadh/
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SUMMARY:Environment and Energy Economics Weekly Seminar: Koichiro Ito
DESCRIPTION:“The Economics of Attribute-Based Regulation: Theory and Evidence from Fuel-Economy Standards”AbstractIn many countries\, fuel-economy standards mandate that vehicles meet a certain fuel economy\,but heavier or larger vehicles are allowed to meet a lower standard. This has the perverseimplication of allowing automakers to meet standards either by improving fuel economy or byincreasing weight\, which lowers fuel economy and increases externalities related to accidents.This is but one example of an attribute-based regulation\, in which the regulation imposed on aproduct depends on both the externality it creates and some other attribute. Attribute-basingpotentially motivates rms and individuals to strategically alter the attribute\, thereby endogenouslyaltering the stringency of the regulation. This paper develops a theory of attribute-basingto demonstrate the costs and benets of its use. The paper then empirically examines the consequencesof attribute-based fuel-economy standards in Japan\, where fuel-economy standardsare a notched attribute-based function of vehicle weight. We use cross-sectional and panel techniquesto demonstrate that attribute-based regulation has signicantly altered the distributionof vehicle weight in Japan\, where 10% of vehicles bunch at weight notches. For cars whoseweight is altered in response to the policy\, we estimate that the alteration generates a welfareloss from the exacerbation of weight-related externalities of $1525 per unit sold\, which translatesinto a $686 million annual loss across the Japanese auto market.http://people.bu.edu/ito/attributes.pdfAbout the Speaker:Koichiro Ito is an assistant professor at Boston University School of Management and a Faculty Research Fellow of the National Bureau of Economic Research. He received his Ph.D. from UC Berkeley. Before joining BU\, he was a SIEPR Postdoctoral Fellow at Stanford University. His research interests include environmental and energy economics\, industrial organization\, and public economics.See Professor Ito’s website for more information.
URL:https://innovation.luskin.ucla.edu/event/environment-and-energy-economics-weekly-seminar-koichiro-ito/
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SUMMARY:Environment and Energy Economics Weekly Seminar: Junjie Zhang
DESCRIPTION:’Effortless Perfection:’Do Chinese Cities Manipulate Air Pollution Data?Abstract:This paper uses unique data on daily air pollution concentrations over the period 2001-2010to test for manipulation in self-reported data by Chinese cities. First\, we employ a discontinuitytest to detect the cities that reported dubious pollution data around the cut-off for ”blue-skydays.” Then\, we propose a panel matching approach to identify the conditions under whichirregularities may occur. We find that about 50% of cities reported dubious PM10 pollutionlevels that led to a discontinuity at the cut-off. Suspicious data reporting tends to occur ondays when the anomaly is least detectable. Our findings indicate that the official daily airpollution data are not well behaved\, which provides suggestive evidence of manipulation.Link to paperAbout the Speaker:Junjie Zhang is an Assistant Professor of Environmental Economics at the School of International Relations and Pacific Studies at the University of California\, San Diego. He is a Senior Advisor at the Asia Society and an Associate Editor at the journal of Marine Resource Economics. Zhang completed his Ph.D. in Environmental and Resource Economics from Duke University in 2008. He also holds a B.A. in Environmental Economics and Management from Renmin University of China\, a B.S. and a M.S. in Environmental Engineering from Tsinghua University.  Zhang’s research centers on empirical issues in environmental and resource economics. He is particularly interested in an interdisciplinary approach that integrates social sciences\, engineering and natural sciences to deal with environmental policy problems. His research topics cover air pollution\, water resources\, climate change\, and fisheries. His recent research has focused on the environmental and energy problems in China.  
URL:https://innovation.luskin.ucla.edu/event/environment-and-energy-economics-weekly-seminar-junjie-zhang/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140515T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140515T153000
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SUMMARY:Environment and Energy Economics Weekly Seminar: Tamara Sheldon
DESCRIPTION:“Designing Effective Plug-in Electric VehicleRebates”About the Speaker:Tamara\nSheldon is a doctoral candidate in the economics department at University of\nCalifornia\, San Diego. She is interested in environmental\, energy\, and public\neconomics. Her research explores demand for plug-in electric vehicles and\ninfrastructure as well as how the business cycle affects carbon dioxide\nemissions.  
URL:https://innovation.luskin.ucla.edu/event/environment-and-energy-economics-weekly-seminar-tamara-sheldon/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140513T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140513T200000
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SUMMARY:The Futures of Food and the Futures of Farmers with UCLA Regents' Lecturer Charles C. Mann
DESCRIPTION:By the time today’s UCLAundergraduates hit middle age\, the world will hold almost 10 billion people\,\nmost of them affluent by historical standards. Dinner for the 10 billion\,\nagronomists say\, will be a huge challenge: We are running out of arable land\,\nwater supplies are stretched\, and the advances of the “green revolution” are\nfading. \nResearchers have proposed two\nbroad solutions: maintaining the current system of large-scale industrial\nmonoculture or switching over\, at least in substantial part\, to a much more\nlocalized\, diverse system. The former involves extensive deployment of\ngenetically modified organisms (GMOs)\, heavy chemical use and even heavier\ncomputer monitoring. Meanwhile\, the small\, highly productive farms touted as a\nmodel require vastly more labor—that is\, vastly more people working on the\nland. The choice of system\, a key task of the next generation\, will have\nenormous impact on the kind of lives people lead tomorrow. \nCharles\nC. Mann is the author of 1493\, a New York Times\nbest-seller\, and 1491\,\nwhich won the U.S. National Academy of Sciences’ Keck award for the best book\nof the year. A correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly\, Science and Wired\, he\nhas covered the intersection of science\, technology and commerce for many\nnewspapers and magazines here and abroad\, including National Geographic\, the\nNew York Times\, Vanity Fair and the Washington Post. In addition to 1491 and 1493\, he is the co-author\nof five other books\, one of which is a young person’s version of 1491 called Before Columbus.  
URL:https://innovation.luskin.ucla.edu/event/the-futures-of-food-and-the-futures-of-farmers-with-ucla-regents-lecturer-charles-c-mann/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140513T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140513T200000
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SUMMARY:The Futures of Food and the Futures of Farmers
DESCRIPTION:The Futures of Food and the the Futures of FarmersBy the time today’s UCLAundergraduates hit middle age\, the world will hold almost 10 billion people\,\nmost of them affluent by historical standards. Dinner for the 10 billion\,\nagronomists say\, will be a huge challenge: We are running out of arable land\,\nwater supplies are stretched\, and the advances of the “green revolution” are\nfading. \nResearchers have proposed two\nbroad solutions: maintaining the current system of large-scale industrial\nmonoculture or switching over\, at least in substantial part\, to a much more\nlocalized\, diverse system. The former involves extensive deployment of\ngenetically modified organisms (GMOs)\, heavy chemical use and even heavier\ncomputer monitoring. Meanwhile\, the small\, highly productive farms touted as a\nmodel require vastly more labor—that is\, vastly more people working on the\nland. The choice of system\, a key task of the next generation\, will have\nenormous impact on the kind of lives people lead tomorrow. \nCharles\nC. Mann is the author of 1493\, a New York Times\nbest-seller\, and 1491\,\nwhich won the U.S. National Academy of Sciences’ Keck award for the best book\nof the year. A correspondent for The Atlantic Monthly\, Science and Wired\, he\nhas covered the intersection of science\, technology and commerce for many\nnewspapers and magazines here and abroad\, including National Geographic\, the\nNew York Times\, Vanity Fair and the Washington Post. In addition to 1491 and 1493\, he is the co-author\nof five other books\, one of which is a young person’s version of 1491 called Before Columbus. \nEvent information \n  When:  \n  Tuesday\, May 13\, 2014\n  5:30 – 6:30 p.m. Reception\n  6:30 – 8 p.m. Program \n  Where:     \n  UCLA Public Affairs Building\n  Third Floor Terrace\n  337 Charles E Young Drive East \n  Los Angeles\, California 90095 \nParking and transit informationRSVP by May 8 or contact us for more information:\ncharlesmannatuclaluskin.eventbrite.com   •   310-206-8034 \nSponsored by:\nUCLA\nLuskin Center for Innovation\nCotsen\nInstitute of Archaeology – UCLA\nUCLA\nAsia Institute – International Institute\nUCLA\nLatin American Institute\nGlobal\nPublic Affairs at Luskin\nUCLA\nCesar E. Chavez Dept. of Chicana/o Studies\nUCLA\nInstitute of the Environment and Sustainability\nUCLA\nCenter for Social Theory and Comparative History\nEmmett\nInstitute on Climate Change and the Environment
URL:https://innovation.luskin.ucla.edu/event/the-futures-of-food-and-the-futures-of-farmers/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140508T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140508T153000
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SUMMARY:Environment and Energy Economics Weekly Seminar: Katrina Jessoe
DESCRIPTION:“Commercial and Industrial Demand Response UnderMandatory Time-of-Use Electricity Pricing”AbstractThis paper is the first to evaluate the\nimpact of a large-scale field deployment of mandatory time of-use (TOU) pricing\non the energy use of commercial and industrial firms. The regulation imposes higher\nuser prices during hours when electricity is generally more expensive to\nproduce\, and is the most common way for time-varying incentives to be\ntransmitted to retail electricity customers. We exploit a natural experiment\nthat arises from the rules governing the program to present evidence that TOU\npricing induced negligible change in overall usage\, peak usage or peak load. As\nsuch\, economic efficiency was not increased by this regulation. Bill levels and\nvolatility exhibit only minor shifts\, suggesting that concerns from advocacy\ngroups about increased expenditure and customer risk exposure have been\noverstated.http://kkjessoe.ucdavis.edu/Research.htm.About the Speaker:Katrina\nJessoe is  an assistant professor in the Department of Agricultural and\nResource Economics at UC Davis\, where she specializes in environmental and\nenergy economics. Much of her research centers on the design and evaluation of\nwater regulations and time variant pricing in electricity markets. In her work\,\nshe often collaborates with electric and water utilities\, as well as state\nagencies. Some recent and ongoing projects include the design of a randomized\nfield experiment to test the role of information on the price elasticity for\nresidential electricity\, the analysis of time-variant pricing programs for\nresidential and commercial electricity customers\, and the collection of water quality data from public\nand state small systems to measure the impact of drinking water quality\nregulations in California. She received a BA from Princeton University in 2002\nand a PhD in Environmental and Resource Economics from Yale University if 2009.Please see Professor Jessoe’s website for more information.
URL:https://innovation.luskin.ucla.edu/event/environment-and-energy-economics-weekly-seminar-katrina-jessoe/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140506T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140506T133000
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SUMMARY:Public Policy for Innovation in the Digital Age: Preventing Technology-Facilitated Exploitation
DESCRIPTION:PUBLIC POLICY FOR INNOVATION IN THE DIGITAL AGE SERIESPreventing Technology-Facilitated ExploitationModeratorJohn Villasenor Professor of Public Policy and Electrical Engineering\, UCLAPanelistsErnie Allen President & CEO\, International Centre for Missing & Exploited ChildrenAdrian Chandley PrincipalProgram Manager Lead\, MicrosoftAmanda Hess Staff Writer\, SlateCody Monk Special Agent\, Federal Bureau of InvestigationThe Internet technologies have brought new avenues for exploitation involving child pornography\, human trafficking\, sextortion\, cyberstalking and other forms of harassment. This panel will consider what can be done to provide local law enforcement agencies with better tools to combat these forms of exploitation. How can we more  effectively combat crime\, including crimes of exploitation\, conducted using the “deep web” and digital currencies? Given the global nature of today’s communications systems\, what is the best response to combat exploitation in which the producers and consumers of illicit content are often in different countries?This panel session will explore the challenges associated with fostering the positive aspects of today’s technologies while also addressing their misuse for exploitation.In particular\, the panel will address questions including:What can be done to provide local law enforcement agencies with better tools to combat cyberstalking?Cyberstalking and harassment disproportionately target women. How does this chill online participation by women\, and what are some steps we could take to address this?To what extent should the government regulate digital currencies such as bitcoin\, which can be used for both lawful and unlawful transactions\, including transactions associated with exploitation?Given the global nature of today’s communications systems\, what is the best response to combat exploitation in which the producers and consumers of illicit content are often in different countries?How can we more effectively combat crime\, including crimes of exploitation\, conducted using the “deep web”?All Public Policy for Innovation in the Digital Age panels are free. Registration is required. Seating will be first come\, first served. Lunch will be served. Daily parking is $12. Pay-by-space parking is also available in Parking Structure SV.
URL:https://innovation.luskin.ucla.edu/event/public-policy-for-innovation-in-the-digital-age-preventing-technology-facilitated-exploitation/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140505T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140505T130000
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SUMMARY:IoES/Luskin Research Seminar: Anthony Michaels
DESCRIPTION:“Dare to be Trivial”Presented by Dr. Anthony Michaels\, Managing Director\, Proteus Environmental TechnologiesAbout the TalkUniversities are homes for extraordinary innovation and scholarship. Almost by definition\, environmental scholarship has the additional requirement of being relevant to one of the key challenges for the sustainability of life on this earth. Whose job is it to make that relevance real? What are the tools that we use to bring innovations in thought and technology to the lives of the broader public? Most importantly – what is the scale at which we strive to effect change? The problems are so vast and the route to scale so daunting. I propose that we “dare to be trivial”. Pick big challenges and go to the heart of what it takes to execute on a real change at scale. Then ask – what will it take to change 5% of that global environmental challenge through an innovation? That might be trivial\, but it is not irrelevant. How can we do it fast? I have chosen to stray from the academic path to look at “high-leverage” methods of changing society through innovation. My toolkit of choice is a combination of new approaches to investing\, a hybrid technology development path for innovations and a complex systems perspective. Using real examples that are as diverse as energy efficiency\, recycling\, waste-to-value and agriculture\, this toolkit shows promise for taking academic knowledge to scale – rapidly – and to creating alternate paths to sustainability that leverage the power of market forces. It is complementary to the more traditional toolkits for change such as policy\, innovation startups and education. I think that this niche – fairly unpopulated at this time\, is a wonderful new opportunity for clever research universities to magnify the relevance and value of scholarship on a path to a better planet.About the SpeakerTony Michaels has 21 years of leadership experience in environmental science\, systems thinking and entrepreneurship. He was the founder and Director of the Wrigley Institute for Environmental Studies at the University of Southern California from 1996-2008 with combined research and operational budgets of over $15M per year and over 100 faculty\, staff and students. He has 27 years of experience in marine and environmental research including research on the global carbon cycle and the role of the oceans in absorbing carbon dioxide\, a major greenhouse gas. He co-created and managed a program on the value of climate forecasts in the management of hurricane-related risks by the international reinsurance industry. He was the founding President of the Council of Environmental Deans and Directors\, a professional organization for leaders of academic environmental programs that now involves over 140 universities and colleges. He attended the University of California\, San Diego (1976-1979)\, the University of Arizona (B.S. 1982\, M.S. 1983) and the University of California\, Santa Cruz (Ph.D. in Biology\, 1988). He worked at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution and the Bermuda Biological Station for Research before coming to USC in 1996. 
URL:https://innovation.luskin.ucla.edu/event/ioes-luskin-research-seminar-anthony-michaels/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140502T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140502T153000
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SUMMARY:Energy Innovation Conference
DESCRIPTION:Our Deputy Director\, Colleen Callahan\, will be speaking at the Energy Innovation Conference!Tickets are on sale now!Industry price: $25 with 50% off discount code “Earlybird”Ticket price includes breakfast\, lunch\, and parkingThe Energy Innovation Conference seeks to:Showcase innovative technologies with the potential to reinvent the energy industry\,Enable entrepreneurs\, university researchers\, and corporate executives to demonstrate technology to investors\, corporations\, and industry veterans; andProvide an atmosphere of collaborative learning for all participants through a panel format.Speakers & Panelists:Keynote Speaker:MATT PETERSENChief Sustainability Officer of the City of Los AngelesFeatured Panel:IAN GARDNERChief Strategy & Investment Officer of the LA Cleantech IncubatorJIM MCDERMOTTManaging Partner\, US Renewables GroupANIL TAMMINEEDIVenture Capital\, Angeleno GroupPanel Topics Include*Panels subject to changeTransportation (EVs & Charging)StorageExploration & Production of Oil & GasEnergy Efficiency & IT / SoftwarePolicy\, Government\, & RegulationVC & EntrepreneurshipSolarUtility of the Future / Smart Grid110 Westwood PlazaLos Angeles\, CA 90095-1481anderson.ucla.edu    
URL:https://innovation.luskin.ucla.edu/event/energy-innovation-conference/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140501T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140501T153000
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SUMMARY:Environment and Energy Economics Weekly Seminar: Kyle Meng
DESCRIPTION:“Forecasting theCost to Firms of Climate Policy using Prediction Markets and Lobbying\nRecords” AbstractForecasting the cost of proposed policies may\nbe difficult when prior experience is limited. This paper develops a novel\nforecasting method that combines prediction market prices with stock returns to\nestimate the expected cost to firms of the Waxman-Markey climate policy bill. I\nfind Waxman-Markey would have reduced the value of listed firms by $150 billion\nwith greater losses for carbon intensive sectors. A regression discontinuity\ndesign finds sectors entitled to free allowances under the bill experienced larger\ngains. Lobbying records are used to estimate a political influence function for\nlisted firms and to partially identify costs for unlisted firms.Link to paperAbout the Speaker:Kyle Meng is an\nenvironmental economist whose\nresearch examines the costs\, benefits\, and political economy of climate policy\nwith applications around the world. His research has been published in Nature and PNAS. Kyle is\ncurrently a Postdoctoral Fellow with joint appointment at the Woodrow Wilson\nSchool of Public and International Affairs at Princeton University and the\nEnvironmental Defense Fund. Beginning in the fall of 2014\, Kyle will be an\nAssistant Professor of Environmental Science and Management and Economics at\nthe University of California\, Santa Barbara.
URL:https://innovation.luskin.ucla.edu/event/environment-and-energy-economics-weekly-seminar-kyle-meng/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140425T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140425T163000
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SUMMARY:Conference: Who Owns the Digital City?
DESCRIPTION:RSVP by April 21\, 2014REGISTER TODAY!This conference brings together policymakers\, technologists\, engineers\, activists and intellectuals to explore how information and communication technologies are changing the governance\, social experience\, management and study of our cities.This is a part of a larger project at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs to explore the main critical policy issues raised by the digital revolution\, which is upending entire fields and industries and causing many changes in our daily lives. The latest phase of information and communication technology development will have a particularly powerful effect on our cities and regions\, leading to new paradigms of urban management\, public decision-making and participation\, social interaction\, and social-scientific methodology.The keynote presentation will be given by computer scientist and futurist Jaron Lanier\, author of Who Owns the Future?Event informationKeynote: Thursday\, April 24\, 2014  6 p.m. – 8 p.m.UCLA Luskin Third Floor Terrace 337 Charles E Young Drive East Los Angeles\, California 90095   Conference:Friday\, April 25\, 2014 9 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.UCLA De Neve Commons\, Plaza Room 351 Charles E. Young Drive West Los Angeles\, California 90095 Parking available for $12 
URL:https://innovation.luskin.ucla.edu/event/conference-who-owns-the-digital-city/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140425T070000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140425T140000
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SUMMARY:2014 LABC Sustainability Summit: California Energy and Water Policy: Is it Driving New Jobs and Investment in Los Angeles?
DESCRIPTION:J.R. DeShazo will be a speaker at this year’s LABCAnnual Sustainability Summit. Hailed by notables nationwide as the singular LA event that\ncaptures how best to build and capitalize on the new clean tech economy\, this\nexceptional forum advocates for business-driven solutions and\npolicy-prescriptions that can make clean energy more profitable.  \nAt this year’s summit\, L.A.\nCityMayor Garcetti is invited to share with us his vision and plan for a\nsustainable city that creates new jobs and businesses. Also invited to give\nkeynotes are Dr. Manuel Pastor\, Director of USC’s Program for\nEnvironmental and Regional Equity\, and City of Lancaster Mayor R. Rex\nParris\, who set Lancaster on a path to becoming a net zero city. \nConfirmed speakers also include: California State Senator Kevin\nde Leon; Gary Lee Moore\, Interim Executive Director of the Port\nof Los Angeles; Robert Katherman\, Water Replenishment District of\nSouthern California; Commissioner Andrew McAllister\, California Energy\nCommission and many more.  \nThe LABC Institute will\nbe partnering with the UCLA Luskin Center for Innovation and the USC Program\nfor Environmental and Regional Equity to conduct research and release a report\non the LADWP Clean LA Solar (Feed-in-Tariff) Program that will provide an early\nsnapshot of the local impacts and offer suggestions for maximizing the benefits\nas the program seeks to scale up to a 600 MW Program. \nFor more information\, Click Here.
URL:https://innovation.luskin.ucla.edu/event/2014-labc-sustainability-summit-california-energy-and-water-policy-is-it-driving-new-jobs-and-investment-in-los-angeles/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140424T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140424T200000
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SUMMARY:Keynote: Who Owns the Digital City?
DESCRIPTION:RSVP by April 21\, 2014\nREGISTER TODAY! \nThis conference brings together policymakers\, technologists\, engineers\, activists and intellectuals to explore how information and communication technologies are changing the governance\, social experience\, management and study of our cities. \nThis is a part of a larger project at the UCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs to explore the main critical policy issues raised by the digital revolution\, which is upending entire fields and industries and causing many changes in our daily lives. The latest phase of information and communication technology development will have a particularly powerful effect on our cities and regions\, leading to new paradigms of urban management\, public decision-making and participation\, social interaction\, and social-scientific methodology. \nThe keynote presentation will be given by computer scientist and futurist Jaron Lanier\, author of Who Owns the Future? \nEvent informationKeynote: Thursday\, April 24\, 2014  6 p.m. – 8:00 p.m.UCLA Luskin Third Floor Terrace 337 Charles E Young Drive East Los Angeles\, California 90095   Conference:Friday\, April 25\, 2014 9 a.m. – 4:30 p.m.UCLA De Neve Commons\, Plaza Room 351 Charles E. Young Drive West Los Angeles\, California 90095 Parking available for $12
URL:https://innovation.luskin.ucla.edu/event/keynote-who-owns-the-digital-city/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140424T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140424T180000
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SUMMARY:Justice Fusion:  Art and Creative Expression for Social & Environmental Equity
DESCRIPTION:RSVP at: conta.cc/1q0gK6rSponsored by the UCLA Environmental Justice Initiative\, this event explores the intersection between race\, class\, gender\, and environmental issues through art. The event will feature contributions from students and artists at the crossroads of environmental activism and scholarship. Attendees will also have the opportunity to express their own experiences with environmental burdens and benefits through visual and performance art. Learn more about the artists and event…Program4:00-5:00pm Refreshments4:00-5:00pm Photography Exhibit & Live Art5:00-6:00pm Poetry & Spoken WordCo-Hosted by:Center for the Study of InequalityInstitute of the Environment and SustainabilityInstitute of American CulturesLuskin Center for InnovationUCLA Cultural Affairs CommissionUCLA Luskin School of Public Affairs
URL:https://innovation.luskin.ucla.edu/event/justice-fusion-art-and-creative-expression-for-social-environmental-equity/
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SUMMARY:Environment and Energy Economics Weekly Seminar: Catherine Wolfram
DESCRIPTION:“The Demand for Energy-Using Assets among the World’s Rising Middle Classes”Abstract:We study decisions to acquire energy-using assets in thepresence of rising incomes. We develop a theoretical framework to show that\ncredit-constrained\, poor households are unlikely to use additional income to\nbuy appliances. The effect of income growth on asset purchases is stronger at\nhigher income levels. We use large and plausibly exogenous shocks to household\nincome generated by the conditional-cash-transfer program in Mexico\,\nOportunidades\, to show that asset acquisition is nonlinear\, depends\, as\npredicted\, on the pace of income growth\, and both effects are economically\nlarge among beneficiaries. Our results may help explain important worldwide\ntrends in energy use.Link to paperAbout the Speaker:Catherine Wolfram is Cora Jane Flood Professor of Business Administration at\n the Haas School of Business and a researcher at the UC Energy\nInstitute. Her research focuses on the economics of energy markets. She has studied the impact of environmental regulation on energy\nmarkets and the effects of electricity industry privatization and\nrestructuring around the world. She received a PhD in economics from MIT. Before joining the faculty\nat UC Berkeley\, she was an assistant professor of economics at Harvard\nUniversity.\nSee Catherine Wolfram’s complete bio.
URL:https://innovation.luskin.ucla.edu/event/environment-and-energy-economics-weekly-seminar-catherine-wolfram/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140417T140000
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SUMMARY:Environment and Energy Economics Weekly Seminar: Hunt Allcott
DESCRIPTION:“The Lightbulb Paradox: Evidence from Two Randomized Experiments”Abstract:It is often suggestedthat consumers are imperfectly informed about or inattentive to energy costs of\ndurable goods such as cars\, air conditioners\, and lightbulbs. We study two\nrandomized control experiments that provide information on energy costs and\nproduct lifetimes for energy efficient compact fluorescent lightbulbs (CFLs)\nvs. traditional incandescent bulbs. We then propose a general model of consumer\nbias in choices between energy-using durables\, derive sufficient statistics for\nquantifying the welfare implications of such bias\, and evaluate energy efficiency\nsubsidies and standards as second best corrective policies if powerful\ninformation disclosure is infeasible. In the context of our theoretical model\,\nthe empirical results suggest that moderate CFL subsidies may be optimal\, but\nimperfect information and inattention do not appear to justify a ban on\ntraditional incandescent lightbulbs in the absence of other inefficiencies.Link to paperAbout the Speaker:Hunt Allcott is an Assistant Professor of Economics at New York University and a Faculty Research Fellow at the National Bureau of Economic Research. He is also a Scientific Director of ideas42\,\n a think tank that applies insights from psychology and economics to\nproblems in international development\, health care\, consumer finance\,\nand the energy industry. He is a Contributing Author of the\nIntergovernmental Panel on Climate Change Fifth Assessment Report and\,\naccording to a recent article in the American Economic Journal\, one of the top five most-cited economists who have completed a PhD after 2005.\n      Professor Allcott holds a PhD from Harvard University and a BS\nand MS from Stanford University. Before coming to NYU\, he was the Energy\n and Society Fellow in the MIT Economics Department and the MIT Energy Initiative.\n He has also worked in the private sector as a consultant with Cambridge\n Energy Research Associates and in international development as a\nconsultant to the World Bank. During academic year 2013-2014\, he is a\nvisiting professor at Berkeley\, Stanford\, and the University of Chicago. \nProfessor Allcott is an applied microeconomist who studies topics in\nenvironmental and energy economics\, industrial organization\, behavioral\neconomics\, and development microeconomics. His research centers on\nconsumer behavior\, business strategy\, and regulatory policy in energy\nmarkets. He uses a variety of tools\, including both structural and\nreduced form econometrics\, applied theory\, and randomized field\nexperiments.
URL:https://innovation.luskin.ucla.edu/event/environment-and-energy-economics-weekly-seminar-hunt-allcott/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20140416T120000
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SUMMARY:Where did all the Money Go? Economic Development in a Post-Redevelopment California
DESCRIPTION:Withthe recent impact of the most severe recession since the Great Depression\, and\nthe elimination of redevelopment in California\, literally\, “Where did all the\nMoney Go?”  And how can we still achieve\nthe goals of Smart Growth and Sustainable Community planning?   This symposium will be a conversation with a\nselected group of UCLA alumni from our programs that are engaged in helping to shape\nthose outcomes.  We will also discuss key\nissues students will eventually face as planners and policy analysts and how your\neducation today can help with your professional challenges ahead. \nRedevelopment\nwas a major land assembly and financing tool for economic development\, and an\nimportant financing mechanism for affordable housing.  Now that it is essentially gone – except for\ncompleting the transfer of outstanding assets by the successor agencies\, where\nis all the money going and how are jurisdictions coping?  How can we continue to plan effectively under\nthese conditions\, and what new financing and planning tools are on the horizon?  This is a dynamic and exciting time\, although\nthe future is far from certain. \nThe\nPanelists will discuss the various key topics from their own work perspectives.  Professor Donald Shoup will make some introductory\nremarks about how the world of urban public finance has changed since he first\nstarted teaching this course over two decades ago. Panelists include: \n▪ Moderator- Stan Hoffman\, President\, Stanley R. Hoffman\nAssociates\, UCLA MA Urban Planning\, 1972 \n▪ Cecilia Estolano\, Principal\, Estolano LeSar Perez Advisors\,\nLLC\, former Los Angeles CRA director\,\nUCLA MA Urban Planning\, 1991  \n▪ Robb Steel\, Director – Economic Development\, former\nRedevelopment Director\, City of Rialto\, UCLA MA Urban Planning\, 1981 \n▪ Brian Gross\, Senior Consultant\, Waronzof\, UCLA MA Urban\nPlanning\, 2002 \n▪ Julio Morales\, Finance Director\, City of Huntington Park\,\nUCLA MBA\, 2003 \n▪ Sarah McPherson Besley\, Hollywood Properties Owners\nAlliance\,  UCLA MA Urban Planning\, 2007 \n▪ Jeff Carpenter\, retired\, former Los Angeles CRA Senior Staff\, UCLA MA Urban Planning\, 1971 \n 
URL:https://innovation.luskin.ucla.edu/event/where-did-all-the-money-go-economic-development-in-a-post-redevelopment-california/
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SUMMARY:Environment and Energy Economics Weekly Seminar: Matthew Kahn
DESCRIPTION:“Household Demandfor Low Carbon Public Policies: Evidence from California”AbstractIn recent years\, Californians have voted on\ntwo key pieces of low carbon regulation. The resulting voting patterns provide\nan opportunity to examine the demand for carbon mitigation efforts. Household\nvoting patterns are found to mirror the voting patterns by the U.S Congress on\nnational carbon legislation. Political liberals and more educated voters favor\nsuch regulations while suburbanites tend to oppose such initiatives. Survey\nresponses at the individual level are shown to predict the spatial variation in\nactual voting patterns and hence convergent validity for results obtained with\nstated preference data on voting markets.http://www.nber.org/papers/w19965About the Speaker:Matthew E. Kahn is a\nProfessor at the UCLA Institute of the Environment\, the Department of\nEconomics\, the Department of Public Policy\, the Anderson School of Management and theUCLA Law School. He is a research associate\nat the National\nBureau of Economic Research and a research fellow at\nIZA.  He also serves as a Non-Resident Scholar at the NYU Stern\nSchool of Business at the Urbanization Project and as a Non-Resident\nScholar at the University of Pennsylvania Institute for Urban\nResearch.  Before joining the UCLA faculty in January 2007\, he taught\nat Columbia and the Fletcher School at Tufts University.  He has served as\na Visiting Professor at Harvard and Stanford and as the Low Tuck Kwong\nDistinguished Visiting Professor at the National University of\nSingapore.  He holds a Ph.D. in Economics from the University of\nChicago.   He is the author of  Green Cities: Urban Growth and the\nEnvironment (Brookings Institution Press 2006) and the co-author of Heroes and Cowards: The Social Face of War (Princeton\nUniversity Press 2009). In September 2010\, Basic Books published his book\ntitled Climatopolis .  In July 2013\, he\npublished his book titled:Fundamentals of Environmental Economics: Solving Urban\nPollution Problems.  My research focuses on environmental\,\nurban\, real estate\, and energy economics.  \nHe also serves as the Director of\nResearch for the UCLA Anderson School’s Ziman\nReal Estate Center.  Please see Professor Kahn’s website for more information.
URL:https://innovation.luskin.ucla.edu/event/environment-and-energy-economics-weekly-seminar-matthew-kahn/
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